A-Day tentatively set for April 18... and links!

You want investigative journalism? You got it. After days of digging and figuring, some of which involved a much-dreaded calculator, I have reached one conclusion:

A-Day is tentatively scheduled for April 18.

How do I know? Well, I got a tip from my buddy Randall, a huge Alabama fan, after he was checking out Coach Nick Saban's Web site. Turns out, on CoachSaban.net, there is a counter working its way down to A-Day that now reads 97 days.

That's where the calculator entered, and I came up to an end point of April 18. This may change, and the UA media relations department has not announced it yet. But pencil it into your calendars.

Also, with spring vacation slated for March 13 to 20, at least Saban won't have to split practice up around vacation like he did last year. Figure the 15-day spring workouts will begin somewhere a little after March 23.